It’s said that the great players cannot accept losing, but maybe the opposite is true. After all, they lose on tennis’ grandest stages, amid high-stakes occasions, in front of millions of viewers ...

Over the last decade, Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall had chased one another to and from every corner of the globe. From 1963 to ’67, they’d been the two best barnstorming pros in the world, competing ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Love hurts. Love as in tennis, that is; hurts as in elbow. It’s a garden-variety affliction, apparently. I could just about see the orthopedist’s eyes glaze over as she explained ...

Indoor tennis has been played on a lot of surfaces. First there was wood, which picked up glare like ballroom parquet, bounced the ball sickeningly fast and with a deadly skid. Then there was canvas, ...